When cleaning your ears, you must use caution
I was at the grocery store today with Luke and I overheard a humorous conversation between a young couple, not unlike conversations I have had with my husband.
Man: “Are these the right size Q-Tips?”
Woman: “How would I know? You’re the one that’s so anal about your Q-Tips.”
Man: “I just want to be sure, because the smaller ones really hurt.”
Woman: “Well, you are jabbing a long pointy thing into your ear.”
I had to chime in because they could see I was standing there next to them (we were both shopping for barrettes) chuckling to myself. I will tell you what I told them because it is a very important life lesson:
Don’t skimp on the cotton swabs. It’s just not worth the money you save to buy the cheap kind.
I told this story to Mike and he reminded me that he knows better than anyone how true this is. He went to the E.R. once because he was bleeding from the ear. We had just found out he had a brain tumor so we were scared out of our gourds that it was related to that but it turns out it was just from an ear-cleaning accident. Between his freakish strength and the cheap crappy cotton swabs I had bought to save a buck, he had ruptured something. Thankfully he was okay, but it should still serve as a lesson to all of you who may think the brand you clean your ears with doesn’t matter. It does.
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September 6th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I have been buying the cheap kind for years! I have never had an incident. Am I doing something wrong? I guess I will keep on with my cheap ones until I have a near fatal incident. Cuz saving that buck is nice…but its the living on the edge that I truly love!;)
September 6th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
You’re probably not doing it right. Are you sure you’re getting all the wax out? I don’t know how you could with those puny swabs.
September 7th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
You are not suppose to put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear! But if you must, don’t go so deep. Some ear wax is good, it traps foreign particles and stops it from getting into your ear. I do buy the expensive kind, because too many times the cheap ones have poked me or the cotton fell right off the tip and stayed in my ear.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,415181,00.html
September 7th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Very very funny to me.
I do recall it was you who gave us Q-tips in our weeding card and they were SO NEEDED!
September 7th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Oh my gosh, I almost forgot all about that! Was that the most ghetto wedding present ever or what?